{"id":717,"date":"2022-12-01T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-12-01T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/concomitentes.vl22350.dinaserver.com\/el-diversorium-cierra-y-abre-nueva-etapa-bailando\/"},"modified":"2025-07-15T18:51:20","modified_gmt":"2025-07-15T18:51:20","slug":"the-diversorium-closes-and-opens-a-new-stage-dancing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/concomitentes.org\/en\/el-diversorium-cierra-y-abre-nueva-etapa-bailando\/","title":{"rendered":"The Diversorium closes and opens a new stage with dancing"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Diversorium was launched in 2018 by the activists of the Barcelona Independent Living Office<\/a><\/u>, Antonio Centeno and Mar\u00eda Oliver<\/a><\/u>, and the mediator Veronica Valentini<\/a><\/u>, to respond to thehe need to promote spaces that emphasise coexistence, encounter and celebration between all bodies, from the perspective of people who have some kind of functional diversity or form part of the different affective and invisible communities in the city.<\/strong>. As Mar\u00eda Oliver, the project's commissioner, explains: \u201cThe beauty of the Diversorium is that it has been a joint project, based on listening and dialogue. <\/p>\n

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\n Veronica Valentini with her clients, at the presentation of the project at Medialab in 2018. <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

A process built from this common desire that has explored in these four years the cultural and social meaning of difference through the development of new forms of cooperation, relationship and connection between all people.<\/strong>. A long road, not exempt from difficulties such as that of a global pandemic, and which at all times has been the result of active and constant communication between the mediator and her clients: \u201cOur relationship was very horizontal, I did not move without having a prior conversation with my principals. It has always been a back and forth with all the voices that cohabited this project\u201d, Veronica assures.<\/p>\n

Change of dimension: Second Diversorium at the BAM Festival<\/strong><\/p>\n

After the celebration and accumulated learnings from the first Diversorium<\/a><\/u>, which took place at the Sala Apolo in February 2020, the principals and the mediator defined the commission with which they approached Osias Yanov<\/a><\/u> to be the artist who devised and developed the next great Diversorium, which was held on 23 September 2022, which changed its dimension by taking place in the public space within the framework of the Bam Festival of the Merc\u00e9 festivities.<\/strong> of Barcelona. \u201cWe shared with Os\u00edas the intentions and motivation behind this project, and from there he contributed his own vision,\u201d says Vero Valentini.<\/p>\n

A rich dialogue, based on listening and collaboration, and above all easy, as Maria explains, since \u201cOsias was an artist sensitive to the whole question of diversity\u201d.\u201d<\/strong>. A key to the Barcelona concomitance that Vero Valentini also seconds in her words: \u201cThe invitation to Osias was the most precise thing we could have done, I already knew his work and, as we moved forward, we saw that it was the right choice\u201d.<\/p>\n

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\n The artist, Os\u00edas Yanov, in one of the work sessions of the residency at Macba \u00a9 Eva Carasol <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

This festival and celebration that proposes the collective enjoyment of people with and without disabilities was an underlined, pending and pressing need, in short, a long-awaited cause, as the client tells us: \u201cHere we didn't knock on the door ourselves, but Bam did, which is a clear indication of how necessary and sexy universal leisure and cultural spaces are\u201d.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Creative process in Buenos Aires and residency at Macba<\/strong><\/p>\n

The process of artistic creation for the September event began in the first half of this year in Buenos Aires, the city where Osias Yanov lives and works. In this initial phase, a sustained exchange between the artist, the mediator and the commissioners, based on knowledge, in order to \u201cquestion the project better from what we say or what we feel\u201d.\u201d<\/strong>. In addition, a series of drawings were generated to visualise how this party was to take place, and a fanzine<\/a>, where different forms of the festival were detailed.<\/p>\n

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\n One of the pages included in the fanzine that was designed in the initial phase of the Diversorium. <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Once in Barcelona, the The second phase of artistic creation and production which, as Osias says: \u201cIt was interesting to see how they moved from theory to practice, generating a very intense relationship between all the participants\u201d.\u201d<\/strong>. From a coordinating role, Osias led a residence at Macba<\/a><\/u>, which opened up a space to promote movements connected to the sensibility of the festive and sensual from a queer-crip<\/em>. <\/p>\n

\u201cOs\u00edas carried out a great work with the small community that was constituted with the workshops and rehearsals at Macba, a work that went beyond the artistic and that was sustained by the people with the characteristics and sensibilities of each one of them. In this sense, he was dealing with all the human architecture that constituted this project and which consisted of many parts\u201d, stresses Veronica Valentini.<\/p>\n

In these workshops, which interrelated the sensitive, mobile and physical properties that emerged, the costumes and devices that were later used on the day of the celebration were generated.<\/p>\n

\n \u201cThe costumes put a parenthesis in our humanity in order to take us to another state, and to see how we related with the excuse of these new skins. All this was put on stage, but it was also shared with the public, generating an exchange with this experience that we had begun with this residency\u201d, Osias Yanov, artist of the Diversorium at the BAM Festival. <\/p>\n